2016 08 04 TSC Minutes

Hyperledger Project

Technical Steering Committee (TSC) Meeting

August 4, 2016 (7:00am - 8:30am PT) via GoToMeeting

TSC Members

Resources:

• Github:  www.github.com/hyperledger

• Wiki:  https://github.com/hyperledger/hyperledger/wiki

• IRC:  #hyperledger on freenode.net (has Meetbot)

• Public lists:  lists.hyperledger.org

• Slack:  https://slack.hyperledger.org/ (self-generated invites)

• Information on the TSC Members can be found at https://www.hyperledger.org/about/tsc

• Meetings:  https://github.com/hyperledger/hyperledger/wiki/PublicMeetingCalendar

Agenda

• Action Item Review

• Follow-up on Gerrit migration

• WG Updates

Action Item Review

• Hackfest preparation and updates (Todd)

  • Readout from SF Hackfest (Brian and other attendees)

    • Overview of activities

  • August 24-25, virtual (confirmed)

    • Limited participation last time -- teeing up specific action items would be beneficial

    • Will create Google doc for agenda to iterate on over the coming weeks

  • October 3-4, Amsterdam (confirmed - details coming soon)

• Maturity of software discussion (Jeremy & Bill) - PPT deck

  • Jeremy:  Since we last met, presented to Requirements WG and got favorable response.  Got agreement to incorporate into use cases template. Bill and I walked through a spreadsheet of risks and mitigations.  Important to enterprise development. Incorporated a part of discussion from Identity WG (prioritize features for membership services).

  • Next steps:  Start to develop database some more.  Start to update use case template as well to incorporate risk assessment methodology.

  • Brian:  We did talk about this deck at the Hackfest and many found it useful to walk through what we want to be thinking about when getting ready for 1.0 release.

• Review Hyperledger Release Taxonomy v0.2 and look at semver (Brian)

  • semver versioning #s have not yet been integrated -- will revisit next week.

• TSC election (Todd)

  • Election timeline

  • Contributor list (if you are not on this list, but should be, please email tbenzies@linuxfoundation.org)

• Revise Hyperledger Explorer proposal and bring back to the TSC next week for review/approval. (Chris)

  • Pardha:  made some updates, will circle back with Dan/Chris and then post to wiki for discussion next week.

  • Brian:  At the Hackfest last week, there is a path forward to build on top of initial contribution to be able to talk to both Fabric and STL.

Follow-up on Gerrit migration

• Brian:  There are some outstanding migration questions.  We’ve moved where repo sits, the core upstream repo is now on gerrit.hyperledger.org.  One aspect to determine is:

  • leverage the mirror of the fabric (and other) repos to GH and let nature take its course

  • leverage the ability to establish a non-GH identity for our project leveraging the <meta> tage configuration supported by Go.

  • Discussion ensued leading to the outcome that the technical community will continue to further iterate on this topic over the mailing list.

  • Arnaud reminded the TSC of the Immersion into Gerrit training done by Ry Jones.

WG Updates

• Requirements WG (Oleg Abdrashitov)

  • Jeremy Sevareid and Bill Sparks are working on Risk Assessment and Controls document

  • Oleg Abdrashitov working on Certification and Global KYC Database use cases

  • Ajit Krishnamohan of Airbus working on the requirements for the Supply Chain use case

• Architecture WG (Ram Jagadeesan)

  • Held F2F at SF Hackfest

    • 1st session on documentation around consensus layer and smart contract layer (and interface between them).

    • 2nd session on security and privacy requirements

• Whitepaper WG (Dave Voell)

  • Met yesterday, reviewed final updates for next publication (no new feedback for ~3 weeks)

  • Draft v2.0.0 (published August 3, 2016) -- please review

• Identity WG (Christopher Allen)

  • Update via email

• CI WG (Chris Ferris)

  • Update via email

Actions

• ACTION:  Hackfest preparation and updates (Todd)

• ACTION:  Review Hyperledger Release Taxonomy v0.2 and add semver versioning numbers (Brian)

• ACTION:  Pull a list of wiki contributors to add to TSC election list (Chris)

• ACTION:  Clean up “contributor” list in preparation for the TSC election (Todd)

• ACTION:  Revise Hyperledger Explorer proposal and bring back to the TSC next week for review/approval (Pardha)